M6 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

836 of the district's 1,209 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 53.49282, -2.29841, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in M6

Companies House lists 2,861 companies with a registered office in M6; 1,013 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for M6

• Salford
• North West
• Eccles
• Pendlebury

Roads filed under M6

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Abram Street
• Acacia Drive
• Acresfield Road
• Agnew Place
• Albany Way
• Alderson Street
• Alder Street
• Alexander Street
• Almond Close
• Alpha Street
• Alpha Street West
• Alresford Road
• Amersham Park Road
• Amos Street
• Annie Street
• Aquarius Lane
• Arbour Close
• Arctic Street
• Arnside Drive
• Ascot Walk
• Ashbourne Road
• Ashcroft Avenue
• Ashfield Close
• Ashley Street
• Ash Street
• Asten Fold
• Auckland Drive
• Avondale Drive
• Balfour Street
• Bank Lane
• Barclays Avenue
• Barnabas Drive
• Barrfield Road
• Barr Hill Avenue
• Basset Avenue
• Bazaar Street
• Beech Avenue
• Beech Grove
• Beech Lawn Close
• Beeley Street
• Bellhill Gardens
• Belmont Avenue
• Belvedere Road
• Binder Close
• Birch Avenue
• Bishop Road
• Blandford Road
• Blodwell Street
• Blossom Way
• Blyborough Close
• Bolton Road
• Boyson Drive
• Bradfield Avenue
• Brandon Road
• Branksome Drive
• Brentwood
• Brettargh Street
• Briar Hill Way
• Bridlington Avenue
• Brindle Close

Check an address in M6

Check an address in M6

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=M6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about M6

What does an M6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the M6 district of the M (Manchester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Salford. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 836 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest M6

• M51.9 km
• M502.0 km
• M72.7 km
• M173.1 km
• M33.2 km
• M273.3 km
• M23.8 km
• M303.9 km
• M154.2 km
• M254.2 km
• M84.2 km
• M604.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids